Karl Ove Knausgaard in conversation with Maggie Nelson at Murmrr Theatre at 7:00 p.m., organized by Community Bookstore. 17 Eastern Parkway Brooklyn Karl Ove Knausgaard was born in Norway in 1968. His debut novel Out of the World won […]
We invite you all to join us on Thursday, September 27th, at the Wythe Hotel. There will be hors d'oeuvres, an open bar, and live kora music performed by Malang Jobarteh. By purchasing a ticket, you will be supporting our […]
Join us in celebrating International Translation Day with a reading featuring renowned translators Marian Schwartz and Philip Boehm. Marian will be reading from her translation of Russian author Leonid Yuzefovich’s Horsemen of the Sands, and Philip will read from his translation of Polish author […]
Award-winning Russian to English literary translator Marian Schwartz will talk about translating realia in her new translation of Leonid Yuzefovich’s Horsemen of the Sands. She will lead a discussion of translation scholarship, university-level translator training and careers in literary translation.
Peter Wortsman will be speaking on his translation of Grimms' Fairy Tales as part of the 2018 Fairy Tales Speakers Series, at Hunter College. Peter Wortsman was a Fulbright Fellow in 1973, a Thomas J. Watson Foundation Fellow in 1974, […]
Please join us for a discussion of An Untouched House, Willem Frederik Hermans’ "slim but potent war story" (Kirkus Reviews, starred). This event features translator David Colmer in conversation with Dutch author Philip Huff. David Colmer is a writer and translator. He translates Dutch […]
Please join us for a reading and conversation on An Untouched House, Willem Frederik Hermans’ “slim but potent war story” (Kirkus Reviews, starred), featuring translator David Colmer in conversation with Sean Gasper Bye, a translator of Polish, French, and Russian and Humanities Curator at the […]
Please join us for a discussion of An Untouched House, Willem Frederik Hermans' tight, furious novel of the Second World War, featuring translator David Colmer in conversation with Ken Kalfus. This event is free and open to the public. Friday, November 9, 6:00pm at the Penn Book […]
Not all translated Russian literature is a difficult 800-page tome from the 19th century. Marian Schwartz joins us to talk about translating contemporary Russian literature and her latest translation of Leonid Yuzefovich’s Horsemen of the Sands. Horsemen of the Sands contains two […]
Polish writer and translator Jacek Dehnel joins American translator Bill Johnston to discuss the epic in Polish literature, from the 19th century to contemporary works. Johnston will talk about his new translation of Adam Mickiewicz’s Pan Tadeusz or the Last Foray in Lithuania, […]